Nelson D L, Bajo M T
Am J Psychol. 1985 Winter;98(4):503-17.
Previous work indicates that our ability to recall a recently experienced word is reduced by the number of related concepts that it activates in permanent memory. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the possibility that dominance of primary associates, and not category size, is responsible for this observation. The results of three experiments involving manipulations of target and cue set size, as well as meaning and rhyme, indicate that category size effects are independent of dominance. In fact, the advantage of smaller categories and fewer activated items is substantially reduced for words having very dominant primary associates. The findings are discussed in relation to the Sensory-Semantic model.
先前的研究表明，我们回忆最近经历过的单词的能力会因该单词在长期记忆中激活的相关概念数量而降低。本研究的目的是评估主要联想的主导性而非类别大小是导致这一现象的原因的可能性。三项涉及操纵目标和线索集大小以及意义和押韵的实验结果表明，类别大小效应与主导性无关。事实上，对于具有非常主导性主要联想的单词，较小类别和较少激活项目的优势会大幅降低。研究结果结合感觉 - 语义模型进行了讨论。
